Bath-cabinet.



1. N. BRANDELLE.

BATH4 CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED' Nov. 15, 1913.

Patented oct. 26, 1915.

BATH-CANNET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Uct. 213, 1915.

Application filed November 15, 1913. Serial No. 801,126.

To aZZ'wwm 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH N. BRANDELLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bath-Cabinets, of which the 'following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to bathing cabinets and has particular reference to portable cabinets for hot or steam baths.

The object of the present invention is to not only utilize an ordinary bath tub as a part of the cabinet, but to make the bath tub attachment convenient to mount on a tub, convenient to adjust to a person, comparatively inexpensive and simple in its form of construction, and constructed and arranged to fold up into a thin, compact form so that it may be stored ina small space and adapted 'for use in small compartments to which other forms of these structures would be inapplicable because of lack of space.

With these objects in view the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter described in detail, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and incorporated in the appended claims.

1n the drawing-Figure 1 is an elevation, partly in section, of a cabinet embodying my invention together with the figure of a user. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2--2 of Fig. 1, the human figure being omitted. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the hood or attachment, dotted positions showing the beginning of the folding up movement. Fig. 4f shows the top or hood folded up.

In the several views i2, represents an ordi* nary bath tub equipped with a faucet 3 for admitting water thereinto and the usual accessories which are not modified by the present invention. This tub is made a part of my steam-bath cabinet by the addition of a top or hood composed of a frame to lie on the top or edges of the tub, consisting of arched members 11 and 5, and three-sided frame-members G and 7, all these members being hinged together at their ends at 8 and 9. Between the members 4 and 6 and 5 and 7 respectively, extend flexible coverings made of rubber, canvas or other suitable material 10 and 11. A circular opening 12 for the neck oit' a person 13 is formed in the upper horizontal portions of the frames 6 and 7 by each of these frames being formed with a semicircular middle portion, the portion for the frame 6 being designated as 14 and that for the frame 7 as 15. The usual method for providing steam or heated air is to place a burner or heater 16 within the cabinet and connect it through a tube or wires 17 with any nearby fixture. A vessel adaptedto be mounted on the burner and contain steaming water isindicated in Fig. 1 as 18. 19 represents an indentation in the frame which provides for space between the frame and the tub for the tube or wires 17. rllhe hood is fastened temporarily to the tub by means of spring clips 2O and 21 which engage the rim of the tub at any suitable number of points. l

In Fig. 3 the dotted lines show how the frame members G and 7 are parted to be lowered onto the members l and 5, or as much as necessary, to admit the entrance of the person, and other dotted lines show how the frame members 4f and 5 are raised to fold them up against the members 6 and 7 for storage purposes after each service.

By utilizing the whole bath tub as a part of the cabinet it may be partially heated by iiushing the tub with hot water from its faucet, wettingthe bath room floor is obviated, a steam bath may be taken in a common size of bath room too small to contain a separate cabinet besides the usual bath room fixtures, a plunge bath may be taken after the steam bath without leaving the tub,

a foot bath may be taken at the same time t the steam bath is taken, and scarcely any appreciable time is required to prepare for the bath and to put away the attachment or hood after a steam bath has been taken. By making the rim or frame resting on the tub rim, composed of members 1 and 5, several inches wide the same hood may be made to lit several sizes of tubs without resorting to means for shortening or changing the width and length of said frame.

Having thus described my invention 1 claim as newand desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination with a bath tub of a frame in two hinged together sections adapted to overlie the edges of said tub, frame members each having a neck opening therein and hinged together, and a covering in two separate sections for said frame and frame members forming a hood or added chamber on and over said bath tub.

2. The combination with a bath tub, of the horizontal frame members 4. and 5 adapt ed to rest upon the edges ko a bath tub,'the Vertical frame membersl 6 and 7 pvoted to said members 4: and 55 andthe coverings 10 and l1 Which together form the opening 12 when brought together, said members 4, 5, 6, 7 and coverings l() and 11 folding together In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subsorlblng Witnesses.

JOSEPH N. BRANDELLE. `Wtnessesz C. F. PETERSON, as specified. P. V. BRANDELLE.

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' v `Washington, D. C. 

